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Lion King was lauded for it's use of stick puppetry.

Spamalot won several Tony Awards.

I'd say that artistically it's in the eye of the beholder. There are some shows I go to where it's really apparent the cast if just phoning it in. Is that still artistic?

I recall my first broadway show ever The Magic Show with Doug Henning. I was too young to really understand what I was watching, but it got me interested in live theater. Annie the 1977 original, got me very interested in musicals. I was lucky to see Yul Brenner in The King and I just before he died at the Pantages Theater in LA. When I first moved to NYC in 1991. I wanted to go to the theater, but didn't think I could ever afford the tickets until a girlfriend of mine introduced me to TKTS, the Theater Development Fund which offers 50% tickets to same night performances. I saw Smokey Joe's Cafe. Since then I have made a concerted effort to see live theater as often as I can.

If any of these shows as crappy as they could be, inspire just a handful of people to want to see theater, it's well worth the efforts.

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